Thread: Hello From Jersey

Hey Steve Welcome to the forum!

I started out LDing the same as you, by escaping nightmares when I was younger. But lucid dreams seem to be fewer and farther in between as you get older, since we are busier and have more on our minds.

It's great you've got experience with lucid dream control. But I think you should really work on your recall first. Because what's the point of an LD if you don't remember it when you wake up? You should start keeping a dream journal. Write down anything and everything you can remember. And refer to the dream recall tutorial for more info.

Please feel free to post any questions or experiences you may have. Good luck and have fun!

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Originally Posted by Burns

Hey Steve Welcome to the forum!

I started out LDing the same as you, by escaping nightmares when I was younger. But lucid dreams seem to be fewer and farther in between as you get older, since we are busier and have more on our minds.

It's great you've got experience with lucid dream control. But I think you should really work on your recall first. Because what's the point of an LD if you don't remember it when you wake up? You should start keeping a dream journal. Write down anything and everything you can remember. And refer to the dream recall tutorial for more info.

Please feel free to post any questions or experiences you may have. Good luck and have fun!
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I agree completely. Recall is something I do need to work on and I'll get a notepad and paper and leave it on my nightstand just in case. I never did that before because my dreaming was so much more vivid when I was younger, or at least that was my interpretation.

For me right now I think that I'm just not in a restful state when I sleep and it's causing me some trouble trying to remember dreams. I still have one or two here and there and they're profound. I had one a month or so ago that stayed with me for quite a while and I was lucid in this dream. I dreamt that I was in what I thought to be an animal hospital of some kind. I remembered the decor and the surroundings as I walked around. It appeared to be night time because nobody was around. The place was empty. I didn't make any effort to change anything because I wanted to know why I was there. Well a couple weeks later I went with my girlfriend to an animal shelter to adopt a dog. I felt unbelievable deja vu while I was there. I finally realized this was where I was in the dream.

It's nice having a built-in holodeck in your mind but when you experience things like this you realize that your dreams are much more important and they help you find meaning in things that perhaps your subconscious is trying to tell you.

Thank you again for your response and I look forward to reading all the interesting posts in here...